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    NASA Earth Science, formerly called NASA Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) and Mission To Planet Earth (MTPE), is a NASA research program "to develop a scientific...
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    System for the lunar Artemis program. NASA's science division is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System; advancing heliophysics...
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    capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science...
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  • surrounds climatic science. The program is the centrepiece of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. Prior to the development of the current Earth Observing System...
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  • NASA Space Apps moved to the NASA Earth Science Division and expanded to include Earth science and technology. Today, NASA Space Apps features arts and...
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    NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999. It is the principal source of satellite imagery and other scientific...
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    September 2021. "qua Earth-observing satellite mission". Aqua.nasa.gov. Retrieved 10 August 2017. "The Aura Mission". Aura.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 10 August...
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    overview of and topical guide to Earth science: Earth science – all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is also known as geoscience...
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    oceanographer who served as director of the NASA Earth Science division from 2006–2019. In January 2020, NASA announced that the Sentinel-6A Oceanography...
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  • in Congress increasingly opposed the Earth science aspects of NASA spending, arguing that spending on Earth science programs such as climate research was...
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    In 1983 a NASA committee called the Earth System Science Committee was formed. The earliest reports of NASA's ESSC, Earth System Science: Overview (1986)...
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    Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) was a NASA Earth observation satellite created to develop and validate a number of instrument and spacecraft bus breakthrough...
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    Solar System and the universe, and supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. DSN is part of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Map this section's...
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    NASA S-1 or Explorer 7X, was a NASA Earth science satellite equipped with a suite of scientific instruments to study the environment around the Earth...
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    California. The program supports the sub-orbital flight requirements of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. Dryden maintains and operates two ER-2 high-altitude...
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    objective of NASA's Earth science. NASA currently has more than a dozen Earth science spacecraft/instruments in orbit studying all aspects of the Earth system...
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    Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical...
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    The Blue Marble (category Photographs of Earth from outer space)
    300 mi) from Earth's surface, a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history. In the original NASA image, named...
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    is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. Since...
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    Aqua (satellite) (category NASA satellites orbiting Earth)
    Aqua (EOS PM-1) is a NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the precipitation, evaporation, and cycling of water. It is...
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    cylindrical, pencil-sized, titanium tubes and return them to Earth around 2033. The NASA–ESA plan, approved in September 2022, is to return samples using...
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    Since 1958, NASA has overseen more than 1,000 uncrewed missions into Earth orbit or beyond. It has both launched its own missions and provided funding...
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    Aura (satellite) (category NASA satellites orbiting Earth)
    Aura (EOS CH-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate...
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    expressed in science, philosophy, science fiction and popular culture. Advocates of space colonization and space and survival have long sought an Earth analog...
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    "physics": the science of matter and energy and their interactions) is the physics of the Sun and its connection with the Solar System. NASA defines heliophysics...
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    ISRO. August 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2021. Neeck, Steven. "The NASA Earth Science Program and Small Satellites" (PDF). dlr.de. DLR. Archived from the...
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  • preliminary design for a common software framework. In September 2000, the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) released a solicitation that called for the...
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    The second of NASA's Great Observatories, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, operated for nine years before re-entering the Earth's atmosphere in 2000...
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    SeaBASS (data archive) (category Earth observation)
    archive has been used ever since. Oceanography projects funded by the NASA Earth Science program are required to upload data collected on research campaigns...
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    style of Google Earth. The WorldWind Java version was awarded NASA Software of the Year in November 2009. The program overlays NASA and USGS satellite...
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